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Unread 24-03-2005, 12:19
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Re: Winning Defensive Allaince?

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Originally Posted by MORT~11
I must admit that is very GREAT move by 1071, but I look at it this way...

1071 spent most of the match (if not ALL of the match) defending against 230, which is a great strategy because of how effecitvely they capped. But if all you are going to do is block against one robot, why even bother trying to knock tetras loose if you have a strong drivetrain. The move was amazing by 1071 but it also spent time etc to do it. A robot that could simply keep a robot from scoring at ground level could defend easily against them and also another bot that entered that zone, which did occur a couple times in that match. That is just the way I feel...
Well thats just the way you need to play defense. Our alliance gave us the option to play offense if we choose to. We just felt 69 and 126 could out score any two robots, teams 20 and 173 were awsome teams but the fact of the matter is 69 and 126 outsocred them by 14 points.

Had 1071 not hit the center goal with the tetra and have it fall off, we would have scored 3pts on that goal while 230 was still loading in the human zone.

If 1071 didn't play defense it is safe to say 1071 would have given a MINIMUM of 9 points, not includeing triple plays. (1071 averages 12-15 points per match)

Its realistic to say team 230 would have scored atleast 12 - 18 points not includeing possible triple plays. (230 was averageing like 12 - 15 when they weren't being hit and defended in qualifing).

That movie is probably the only effective way to play defense, which is takeing one team out of the picture and effectivly allowing the other 4 teams to do the scoreing. Had we choosen offense, our alliance would have probably still won, but instead maybe the win would have been by 3-6 points instead of 14.

If we felt (or the alliance captain felt) the other two teams on our alliance couldn't outscore the 2 teams from the other alliance obviously defense would not have been an option.

Last edited by nobrakes8 : 24-03-2005 at 12:26.